1838 in Ireland

• 4–22 April – the paddle steamer SS Sirius (1837) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Cork in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.{{cite web|title=Steamship Curaçao|url=http://www.vrcurassow.com/2dvrc/sscuracao/sscuracao.html|access-date=2011-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224202256/http://vrcurassow.com/2dvrc/sscuracao/sscuracao.html|archive-date=24 December 2010|url-status=live}}
• 15 August – following a year of widespread hunger the government institutes relief work and reduces the tithe rent for the poor by the Poor Law and Tithe Acts.{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=375}}
• Foundation of a temperance society in Cork known as the Knights of Father Mathew by Theobald Mathew, a capuchin friar.

• January – Richard W. Dowling, victorious commander at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass in the American Civil War (died 1867).
• 2 February – Nathaniel Burslem, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (died 1865).
• 13 February – Michael Sullivan, physician, professor and politician in Canada (died 1915).
• 26 March – William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (died 1903 in England).{{cite web |title=William Edward Hartpole Lecky {{!}} Irish historian |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Edward-Hartpole-Lecky |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=15 February 2021 |language=en}}
• 3 June – Daniel O'Reilly, U.S. Representative from New York (died 1911).
• 5 July – William Robinson, gardener (died 1935).
• 8 July – Colonel John Burke, soldier in America (died 1914).
• 28 July – Augustus Nicholas Burke, artist (died 1891).[http://www.artnet.com/artist/687571/augustus-nicholas-burke.html/ Augustus Burke – Artnet]
• 24 August – James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, politician and diplomat (died 1913).[http://www.ilab.org/db/book718_916655.html/ ABERCORN: James Hamilton]{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• 11 September – John Ireland, third bishop and first Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (died 1918).
• 18 September – Sir Thomas Drew, architect, first designer of St Anne's Cathedral (died 1910).[http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/1650/ Thomas Drew – Dictionary of Irish Architects]
• 1 November – Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College Dublin (died 1914).
• 18 December – Michael Thomas Stenson, politician in Canada (died 1912).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*James Gildea, soldier and philanthropist, founded the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association (died 1920).
• :*John Philip Nolan, soldier, landowner and politician (died 1912).
• :*Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 near Poutoko in Taranaki, New Zealand (died 1911).

• Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, author, teacher, draper and politician (born 1780).

• 1838 in Scotland
• 1838 in Wales

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